Eagleman's Alternate Afterlives

In two programs from RN David Eagleman discusses both his neuroscientific work and his recently published collection of short stories. A synesthesia researcher by day and a writer of spiritually themed alternate rationalities by night Eagleman, when asked about his own beliefs regarding what occurs after life, describes himself as "a celebrant of the size of the possibility space". It is this notion that no doubt guided him in his writing of forty different post-death scenarios in which he considers all sorts of permutations, many of which are significantly less appealing, (but no less possible), than those offered to us by mainstream religions.

Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan is a journalist who has written extensively on food. In this talk from fora tv Pollan discusses deep agriculture. As with most of fora's videos the embedded version below isn't the full presentation (follow the link for that).



You can also get a podcast of Pollan reading from his book The Omnivores Dilemma from Radio National's first person program. All episodes are listed here.